Show BACKWARD LOOK MAY HELP from Washington that the farm administration is thinking of making the milk distributing industry a II publio public utility subject to all nIl the government regulation regula regula- tio tion that any other public utility must undergo I Milk distributors have been asking the government govern govern- ment en to guarantee their prices and their profits and this suggestion of a public utility's j status atus is reported to be the tile farm t ions ion's answer J I U. U Syl milk milk- k t to inhabitants of a y g gi i l I L city is a n. business in which the public interest must at certain points take precedence precedence- over private te interests If Jf f society exercises control over such businesses as supplying transportation transportation transportation tation cl and gas might it not decide to extend such control to tho the business of supplying milk The rhe milk industry itself holds the answer to the tho question What That all concerned in the business may do with profit is to take a look backward at part of tho the most interesting history of this Ulis countr country Thoy They will observe that prohibition was was was' not wished on the nation by a lot of long haired reformers but by a brewing browing industry and a distilling industry that just couldn't make their sticky fingers behave They will observe likewise that repeal did not come b reason of a demand from the thirsty that their appetites appetites appe appe- be he satisfied but because a loving law and law abiding citizenry would not longer tolerate tho the co conditions s which grew up under prohibition chiefly tion-chiefly tion chiefly u un underworld n d e C r rW w o 0 r rid 1 d domination of crooked politicians and enforcement agents who liked the music of clinking ing dollars better bettor than any other sound If the milk mill industry cannot conduct itself as a gentleman and an American it if is not altogether improbable or impossible that it may come under government regulation Whether it d does cs or not it is up to the industry |